The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-09-15
Tor THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
KANSAS STATE AGRICULTU-
RIAL COLLEGE. (0N

In thinking or speaking Of indus
trial education, it would be impossible
To omit mention of the place that agri-
cultural colleges have taken in this
moderately recent move in the direc-
ton of education. In the long list of
colleges endowed by Congress under
the same law with the object of teach
ing agriculture and the mechanic arts,
Perhaps none has come nearer carry
i1s out the original idea than the
Kansas State Agricultural College.
Shortly after the Congressional
grant of 1862, the Kansas Legislature
accepted the proposition and the lands,
s2,al3,53 of acres, were located. The
College opened in September, 1868,
with SO students under President
Joseph Denison and assistant profess
CTS. This endowment of land was so
~cleverly and honestly managed that
today, with every acre sold, the Col
lege has a half million dollars endow-
Inent with an annual income of S35,-
geo, aside from legislative appropria-
tions.
The Kansas State Agricultural
College is located just without the
limits of the city of Manhattan, Riley
county, Kansas, a town of 1000 in
habitants, we'll situated and suited for
a college town. The location could
not be more desirable, and surely a
prettier part of the State could not
have been selected indeed a better
agricultural portion Of the State is not
easily found. This College has with
others, had many difficulties to con
tend with, but from the % students of
1,S63,64, it has grown until lSS6-S7.
shows upon the rolls 4Sl, of which
1872 were young ladies. The Faculty
consists Of seventeen members, includ-
ing superintendent, and is headed by
Geo. T. Fairchild as President. The
various members Of the Faculty pre-
siding over their separate departments
Of the College are able men and wo-
men and rank high in their especial
lines.
The Department of Agriculture
which stands at the head, is under the
control of Professor E. NJ. Dhelton,
one now almost nationally known.
The College is fortunate in retaining
such a man when the most f~attering
inducements are held out to him by
other institutions. The Professors
love for Kansas and the College is not
easily overcome. The work that this
department has done towards leading
Kansas farmers to better and more
systematic work is everywhere evident
and appreciated. The course of four
years has been SO we'll arranged that a
liberal education is offered to farmers
sons and daughters and although agri-
culture figures largely, it is by no
a the only department.
Professor E. A. Papenoe, Professor
Of Horticulture, has succeeded in
building up his department and in
keeping it well along with the agricul-
ture; and the growing sentiment in
Kansas, that wheat and corr growing
is not all of farming, is in great part
due to the Professors labors. The
departments of chemistry, botany,
Mathematics, engineering and indus
trial art, headed by Professors G. H.
Failyer, w. A. Kellerman, D. E. Lantz,
E. B. Cowgirl and j. D. Walters, re-
spectively, are fully in keeping with
the part they play in the industrial
education. Supplementary to the
principal departments are those in
which practical work is required.
Carpentry, household economy and
cooking, sewing, music, painting and
telegraphy, under able teachers and
superintendent, are an essential to
eoucatlon IN this line Of practical
everyday good sense. Things are so